University professors and outstanding students of Sharif University of Technology met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution—Ayatollah Khamenei—on Monday, January 2, 2017.
In this meeting, Ayatollah Khamenei elaborated on gun crisis and moral decadence in the U.S. and stated: "Today, in U.S., violence, moral corruption, collapse of family, children and next generations' have reached a level where US intellectuals insist on changing the content of movies, advertising, Hollywood cinema, etc... to that of 100 years ago with more moral aspects."
Referring to mass shootings and high rate of homicide in the United States of America, his eminence held: In US, 100s are killed every week by homicide--for no crime, no reason—not at the hands of police, as US police brutality is a separate issue. The accessibility of guns leads to homicide; it has created problems for a country like U.S., everyone admits, fears, and is concerned about it.
Ayatollah Khamenei posed the question as why no solution is being offered to the crisis by saying, "No one dares apply the clear solution to the promotion of guns and homicide in America. What's the solution? It's to make guns illegal.'
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution referred to the domineering weaponry factory owners in the U.S., further stating: "Gun companies are so powerful that House representatives and U.S. senators don't dare pass prohibition of guns, and U.S. president doesn't dare speak out, rise against it. This is corruption."
Ayatollah Khamenei slammed greedy companies who benefit from arm sales at the cost of American citizens' lives and asserted: "Corruption means domination of a mafia greedy for power & wealth, in a way that the big political & military system like U.S. won't dare stand up for prohibition of guns—which is clearly positive. This is due to lack of spiritual ideals, leading western societies to this point."
His Eminence went on to say: "If we want the country, the nation, the human society to achieve bliss, the way to do it is to prefer religious and divine ideals to all other ideals. This should influence our economy. This should impact our scientific works."
